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20th May, 100th National Awakening Days

May 21st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in On this day

A hundred years ago, on 20th May 1908 Wahidin Sudirohusodo supported by Soetomo, Gunawan and Suradji — declared the “Boedi Oetomo“ Organization. This movement have great impact for the foundation of Indonesia Independence. Which 37 years later, Indonesia able to declare their own independence as a country.

So what do you feel?
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My experience with Google Dance

May 21st, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Internet

Recently I found some unique pattern of my website traffic which is drop for several days. Some of my friend told me that it’s normal, and caused by what so called Google Dance.

According to wikipedia,

Google dance refers to the period of time when Google indices are tuned. This will often cause both a fluctuation in index size as well a significant change in a web site’s search result position.

Based on my experience the Google Dance will decrease my website traffic up to 80% from normal traffic. So if my website daily traffic is around 100 unique visits. Then during the Google dance the traffic is only around 20-30. This situation will be happen around 2-3 weeks. Usually it’s happen to every new sites which under 6 month old.

However in the real life there is a lot of cases about Google Dance. In some forum I found some websites that have unusual traffic for each 3 month. And in the others resources I read that the major Google index update occurred on average every 36 days or 10 times per year.

Have you ever been in this situation? My suggestion is don’t panic. Just wait around 2-3 week watching the traffic come back. Yes, in the search engine optimization, result pages are very important, but watching the pattern is also more important.

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